From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 10 11:51:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28D0816A4D1 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 11:51:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from galilee.polands.org (CPE-24-29-189-110.new.rr.com [24.29.189.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 641BE43D1D for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 11:51:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from email.polands.org (samaria.polands.org [172.16.1.17]) by galilee.polands.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id hBAJp9kj058409; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:51:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from 209.103.211.18 (SquirrelMail authenticated user djp) by email.polands.org with HTTP; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:51:09 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <29588.209.103.211.18.1071085869.squirrel@email.polands.org> In-Reply-To: <3FD775F4.2090806@cgi.com> References: <29744.209.103.211.18.1071083818.squirrel@email.polands.org> <3FD775F4.2090806@cgi.com> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:51:09 -0600 (CST) From: "Doug Poland" To: "HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount_smbfs problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 19:51:19 -0000 HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER said: > Maybe your Google is broken. =) The string "mount_smbfs: unable to > open connection: syserr = RPC struct is bad" returned ten or so relevant > results including... > > http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg41941.html > hmmm..... You're right, I limited my search to groups and freebsd mailing questions. The message you reference never came up. Learn something new every day :) > Looks as though the Windoze user that you are connecting with has a > password that is about to expire. Depending on your security policy, > maybe consider checking "Password never expires" for that user. > bingo! > Hope this helps... > many thanks to you Sir. > > Doug Poland wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>I'm running 4.8-RELEASE on a box that, daily, connects to a windows machine >>and writes files to a "share". >> >>This system was working for about a month. But now, every time I issue the mount_smbfs >>command I get.... >> >> "mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = RPC struct is bad" >> >>In /var/log/messages I see... >> >> "/kernel: smb_maperror: Unmapped error 2:2242" >> >>Absolutely nothing has changed on either the FreeBSD box or the Windows 2000 server. >>In fact, neither box had even been rebooted until the discovery of this problem. >>Subsequently, each box was bounced once, but to no avail. >> >>I've googled on both phrases but have found nothing. Can anyone shed light on >>this or, perhaps, point me in the right direction? >> >> >> > > -- > Christopher Hollow - Technical Consultant > Infrastructure & Technology Support > Toronto, ON >